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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:58:44 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 11/06/2014 10:59 PM, dieter wrote:
> John Ladasky writes:
>> On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 11:12:31 AM UTC-8, Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>>> If you really absolutely positively have to have the signature be correct for each instance, you may to either look at a
>>> function creating factory, a class creating factory, or a meta-class.
>>
>> +1.  Overriding __call__() within the class definition, over and over again, with different function, looks awkward to me.
>
> A possibility to get the original approach implemented looks like:
>
>    make "__call__" a descriptor on the class which looks up the real
>    method on the instance.

This still wouldn't get the signatrue correct, though.

--
~Ethan~